Joseph S. Nye

About the Author

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., is a University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and the former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He served as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council and Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration. He is the author of several widely acclaimed books, including Soft Power, The Future of Power, The Power to Lead, Is the American Century Over?, Do Morals Matter: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump, and most recently, his memoir A Life in the American Century. His writings also appear in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the National Interest, and the Financial Times. Foreign Policy has named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers.